Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] name-hash: perf improvement for lazy_init_name_hash

From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Date: Mar 24, 2017, 12:36 UTC
Message-ID: <89375f59-8716-3ddc-b163-5669452273c5@jeffhostetler.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZKri4jsnGCWhpV_WjSef5DxSwMTxYOour9kjzTWOFcxA@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/23/2017 1:45 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Ramsay Jones
> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>> +     /*
>>> +      * Either we have a parent directory and path with slash(es)
>>> +      * or the directory is an immediate child of the root directory.
>>> +      */
>>> +     assert((parent != NULL) ^ (strchr(prefix->buf, '/') == 0));
>>
>
> Also this seems part of the actual shipped code, not testing code.
> In that case we prefer
>
>     if (<condition>)
>         die("BUG: <description>");
>
> This is because asserts may be omitted by the compiler,
> when compiled with NDEBUG.

I mainly wrote that for myself while testing. Now that I'm past that, I'm comfortable removing it completely or converting it to an actual if-die.

Jeff